The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1887-12-03

A Visit TO st. Landry.

The travelling correspondent of the New
Iberia Enterprise sends the following notes OF;
his recent visit to our parish to that progress
sive paper
Arnaudville has gin capacity for 1900 bales
cotton. Roger brothers, are prominent busl-
ness men, post Office at their store. Mr.. *.
Durio, q prOminen" merchant and planter, has
400 acres of cotton yield $50 bales Corn go
acres, yield % bushels per acre. General i'm
provcments on plantation.
Above Arnaudville, gDing west, some miles
and an equal distance north OF that beautiful
Grand Coteau site, is Mr.. Ludger Lastrapes'
plantation on the upper Teche. His practical
Lastrapes, also Mr. A. Kerleea and, have share
interest ON the place. There are 400 acres of
cotton, yielding about 1900 pounds lint on
seed to the acre. Home gin has been put i'll
thorough order; steam apparatus aud cum
densers. Germ yield from 300 acres was 4,S0O
barrels. Mr. l.. possesses beautiful table
slab of native black walnut, 81 feet wide by
feet long. Rye was planted with success here
Thp Pratt stand at Mr.. Ed. Dejeans public
gin will supply his press with lint for 4oU
bales of cotton, 1887. Mr.. Dejean's personal
cotton crop from his 60 acres will be about 80
bales; made 1900 bushels corn from 5o acres.
Messrs. Clements & Wilson, sugar, cotton
and rice buyers, have opened a large business
house in Opelousas Their store-a new one-
contains a splendid assortment OF goods the
dtfereot departments thereof are elegantly
gotten up and confirm friends and strangers
in the opinion, that these responsible gentle
men are profess sonal business men, who main
tain their large and profitable patronage be-
cause of their ability to do so.
Mr.. j. S. Hosea, Ope tOusas, lumber agent
for Messrs. Milmo and SokOes Jeanncrette
saw mill, has every convenience ut han this
own energy and tact booming) for success
ful season, sash and blinds, pine, cypress ana
skiff lumber on yard.
On the route to Washington, met Mr.. 7. D..
Roy, tenant on widow ID. Dejean's place where
is l80 acres cotton, yield 80 commercial bales;
yield of corn 1000 barrels clean. Saved tons
hay and 5000 bundles fodder. Had sheep
ranch, but stray untaxed dogs decimated
the ranch.
Mr.. w. G. Fulghun, near Washington, has
a good farm: made 20 bales of cotton fronI 80
acres. Sorghum fodder. Has some OF the
Mexican cotton-lint II inches long-black
seed. Stalk averages eight and ten feet high
very branchy and bears from 300 to 500 boils.
Originally planted by Mr. *. L. Finn, OF Cen
terville, Miss. Seed obtained at N. y. Expo
sition 1884.
Mount Hope Nursery, Mr.. I. J. Lacy owner,
Washington, La, is in perfect trim. 1t ls ii
sasrge nursery where only the tittest members
Of the orchard and flower garden-suitahie
for perfection in our climate-are presented
for sale. For many years, Mr.. Lacy has ex-
perimented with southern horticulture and
has reduced it down to practical points, those
"points" he hasnfor sale, You need not go
over unnecessasE ground-buy trees etc,
from Mr.. Lacy, ijc'mated and culled as the
surest to give go ID results. His LeConte and
Keiffer pear tree are the only accepted ones
from thirty varieties that he has experiment,
ed with; they re of Chinese origin, we'll
suited to our iblate bear young and bounti.
fully and do not blight. His selected apple
trees, peach plum. ounces Japanese per~im-
mon, grape vines, figs, etc, arc offered so per
cent cheaper than tupacclimatedl northern
growth and with SO per cent assurance for
successful growth, etc, against only 30 per
cent and no per cent at all, of the outside
nursery's products. Flowers, shrubs, etc,
come under the same category.
Continued next week.